| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...spirit of society. All men plume themselves on tlie improvement of society, and no man improves. 45. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| 1842 - 740 pages
...however, he docs. He censures the world for what it has never done, and then does the thing he censures. ' Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gain? on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of ;i treadmill. It undergoes continual... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
| 1851 - 650 pages
...instance of this backward and forward, this saying and unsaying propensity. " Society," he says, " never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a tread-mill." " For everything that is given something... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not ameliomum. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old... | |
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